Frequencies
Titanik A.i.R. X Sibbe Atrium
with Mareike Dobewall, Chanelle A. Bergeron, Leyya Mona Tawil, Andrea Nicole Lim Yi Zhuang, and Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
Immerse yourself in captivating Frequencies at Sibbe Atrium and enjoy experimental music free of charge by five international sound artists hosted at Titanik A.i.R artist residency.
Throughout 2025, Frequencies is a sonic living room for the residents and visitors of Turku. The iconic brutalist architecture of Sibelius Museum’s inner atrium (re)opens for free to the public, resonating with fascinating works of sound art and new artistic research.
Come to listen, stroll, and relax, enjoying Turku’s new Frequencies!
Frequencies is a new collaboration between Titanik A.i.R. artist residency and the Sibelius Museum funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
PROGRAM
April–May: Mareike Dobewall
June–July: Chanelle A. Bergeron
August: Leyya Mona Tawil
September: Andrea Nicole Lim Yi Zhuang
October: Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
Titanik A.i.R has brought international sound artists to Turku for over ten years. Run by the artist association Arte ry in connection with its contemporary art gallery, Titanik A.i.R. is the only sound art residency programme in Finland and one of the few in the Nordic countries. Allowing the artists time to focus on experimentation and research, the program hosts new connections with the local environment and cultural field. The collaboration with Sibelius Museum offers an opportunity to reflect, feel and learn through high-quality sound art from around the world.
The Sibelius Museum is the most comprehensive music museum in Finland. The exhibition work consists of presentations of the museum’s instrument collection, travelling exhibitions, and various collections representing music cultures, not to mention Finland’s most famous composer, Jean Sibelius. The Sibelius Museum occasionally hosts audiovisual exhibitions too, as in the new Frequencies programme. The museum building is one of the most original modernist creations of 1960’s Finland and is included in the Docomomo register selection of modern Finnish architectural masterpieces. Many different genres of music live within the museum. The Sibelius Museum is part of the Åbo Akademi University Foundation.
Visual identity by Nadiye Koçak.
ARTISTS
Mareike Dobewall
Mareike Dobewall is a director, stage director, musician and composer. She has worked in film, theatre, dance, music and installation art. In recent years she has focused on the qualities of sound in live performance. In 2021, Dobewall completed her PhD in Performative and Media Based Practices at Stockholm University of the Arts, specialising in opera with her dissertation Exploring the Scenographic Potential of Acoustic Sound in Site-Sensitive Performance. She is a member of the Society for Artistic Research, which promotes artistic research practices both within and outside academic institutions. Dobewall is also active in the International Alliance for Women in Music and Konstmusiksystrar networks.
Chanelle A. Bergeron
Chanelle Allesandre Bergeron writes poetry and prose, composes spatial and improvised soundscapes, makes floral arrangements and shoots 35mm film stills. She is also interested in combining filigree techniques with creative collaboration and risk-taking within the artistic community. Bergeron has worked closely with Finnish artist-director Lotta Petronella, among others. She currently lives on the Quinnipiac River in New Haven, Connecticut.
Leyya Mona Tawil
Leyya Mona Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian and American artist, curator and cultural activist. She is a performer working with sound, dance and hybrid performance. Her work has been performed in the United States, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Tawil serves as a curator at Live In America Festival and Southern Exposure Gallery, and was the 2020 ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow as part of the NOMADIC SIGNALS series. She is the 2024 Visiting Curator at the Arab American National Museum (Dearborn) and also works at Al Busta’s Seeds of Culture (Philadelphia). She is a founding member of TAC Temescal Arts Center (Oakland) and the experimental SWANA diaspora and its allied platform Arab.AMP.
Andrea Nicole Lim Yi Zhuang
Andrea Nicole Lim Yi Zhuang is a Singapore-born creative producer, multidisciplinary artist and experimental violinist interested in arts-based initiatives for social justice. She currently lives in Bidjigal, Sydney, Australia. Her work is based on listening, reflection and the complexity of identities. She was Creative Director of CuriousWorks from 20/21 before stepping down to focus on developing and re-shaping her independent music and art practice. She has worked and produced programming with The Center on Contemporary Art Seattle, Curious Works and the Sydney Opera House Homelands Tour, among others.
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan is an artist, musician and sound engineer based in Lebanon and France. His practice consists of drawings, found illustrations and texts related to the construction of historical narratives, situated between contemporary art and experimental comics. His sound-based work includes performance (mainly drums, percussion and electronics), experimental composition and sound design for film. For many years he has been actively involved in DIY music communities in the UK, playing in various experimental rock and punk bands, running the Ouse recording studio and label, a C&R collective and label, and organising the experimental music festival Total Inertia in Leeds.